My eyes adjusted to the dimness of the room and I could see more clearly.
Lin Qingle stared at the young man in front of him, completely stunned.
"Who, who hit me?" She paused for a long time before asking in disbelief.
Xu Tingbai still had no expression on his face: "I asked you to get out, don't you understand?"
"I asked you who hit you..." Lin Qingle's heart tightened, and her breathing became a little rapid. She grabbed his sleeve and refused to give in. "Who hit you? How could this happen? Xu Tingbai, please speak."
Xu Tingbai wiped the corner of his lip, his voice a little low due to fatigue: "What does it have to do with you... Can you please not come here."
Lin Qingle shook his head in panic and grabbed his wrist: "No, we can't do this, come with me, let's go to the hospital, to the police station, to-"
"Lin Qingle!" He reached out to grab her hand, but the girl held it stubbornly, holding it so tightly that he couldn't pull it open for a while.
Xu Tingbai felt pain all over his body, but even in this state, there was still a huge difference in strength between men and women.
He couldn't pull her away, so he pulled her back with force. Lin Qingle was easily pulled back, fell and sat on the ground, and he turned around and pressed her against the wall.
Xu Tingbai held her and gritted his teeth: "It's none of your business."
Lin Qingle was pressed roughly by him, trembling all over, but his eyes looked at him stubbornly: "It's none of my business."
"Heh." Xu Tingbai found it a little funny. His eyes were empty and his face was full of sarcasm. "Why are you like this, huh? Is it because I treated you better when we were little? What a joke. I seem to be nice to everyone, not just you. Do you have to—"
“As for.”
"… "
Lin Qingle tried her best to control herself. In fact, she had been holding back since she first saw him. But now, her tears finally burst out uncontrollably.
She said, "As for that, that's it."
Are you nice to everyone? But you were the only one who was nice to me at that time.
Something dripped onto the back of his hand. It was warm, but Xu Tingbai shrank back as if he had been scalded.
He couldn't see it, but he felt that the person in front of him was crying. She was choking and couldn't control her sobs, and her voice was filled with a hint of restrained tears.
"Xu Tingbai, let's go to the hospital first." Lin Qingle wiped her tears and said.
"Need not."
"Then how about calling the police?"
"Call the police? Who?" Xu Tingbai had a splitting headache, but he smiled, "Don't think of being a savior, and don't be too smart. I don't need you to save me."
He was unwilling to say who hit him or reveal the reason.
Lin Qingle suddenly understood a little bit. It was Xu Tingbai himself who had no will to survive. He didn't care and didn't resist, as if he was torturing himself.
"I don't want to be your savior, but you are very important to me." Lin Qingle raised his hands to cover his eyes, his voice was very low, and he was powerless at that moment, "It's just because you are very important, so I want you to be well..."
The mockery on Xu Tingbai's lips suddenly froze, and he listened to the girl's soft sobbing beside him, as if her throat was being strangled.
important
Him.
It's strange... Why do some people still think he is important...
Obviously, so many people who originally thought he was important now hate him.
Why
Why...
"Your body is very hot, you have a fever." Lin Qingle sniffed and insisted, "If you insist on not going to the hospital, then don't go. Let me help you, okay..."
No one responded.
"Is that okay?"
"Xu Tingbai?"
Bang-
A muffled sound.
Lin Qingle suddenly raised his eyes from his palm, and when he turned around, he saw Xu Tingbai falling to the ground due to exhaustion.
She was startled and immediately got up and went to his side. She had just touched his hand and felt it was very hot. Now she touched his forehead and was even more certain that he had a fever.
Lin Qingle was anxious, but even though Xu Tingbai was very thin, he was still too heavy for her. She tried to drag him to the bed, but she couldn't do it at all.
Finally, she had no choice but to take off the quilt and pillow on the bed and wrap him completely in the sheets.
After doing all this, she went to look for the medicine box. She quickly found the medicine box he had given her last time, but there were only some medicines for external injuries, no medicines for colds and fevers.
Unable to just fight off the fever, Lin Qingle made a prompt decision and ran out to the pharmacy to buy antipyretic drugs.
On the way there, she also called Jiang Shuyi and told her that she was not feeling well and asked her to take a leave for evening self-study.
Lin Qingle had good grades and was usually well-behaved and obedient, so the head teacher gave his approval without any doubt.
By the time she finished buying the medicine and returned to Xu Tingbai's house, it was already completely dark.
Although Lin Qingle is still young, she has a lot of experience in taking care of people. In the past, she was the one who took care of Lin Yufen whenever she was sick or injured.
She turned on the light in Xu Tingbai's room, took his temperature first, put a fever-reducing patch on him, and then fed him antipyretic medicine.
But the feeding process was not smooth, and a lot of soup leaked out, flowing down his cheeks and onto his neck. After feeding him a whole bowl, the pillow was wet.
So Lin Qingle took down another pillow from the bed, propped up his head with one hand, and changed the pillow with the other hand.
He was sleeping very soundly and looked very heavy. After completing this step, she was so tired that her breathing became unstable.
"Xu Tingbai, you've grown so much, you're so heavy..."
The person who had fallen asleep had his brows tightly furrowed and could not hear what she said.
Lin Qingle sighed softly and sat on the floor looking at him.
Perhaps, no one knows why she is so obsessed with him.
Just like, no one knows how much she hoped in the past few years that her mother would change jobs quickly and come back to Xicheng earlier so that she could see the glowing little boy again.
She wasn't quite sure how Xu Tingbai treated others in the past, but to her, his kindness at that time was her only lifeline.
—
When Xu Tingbai woke up, he felt pain all over his body, but this pain seemed to be accompanied by a subtle sense of comfort and coolness.
He raised his hand and tried to move, but his hand was held by something.
He was slightly startled, and subconsciously pinched it. It was soft and small, and he could tell it was a human hand.
And this hand held him tightly, as if afraid that he would pull away...
This was probably the first time in all these years that there was someone next to him when he woke up.
"you… "
"Hmm... it's back a little, it will be fine soon..." he murmured, as if he hadn't woken up yet.
And the sound was so close, as if... it was lying next to him.
Xu Tingbai was startled and immediately pulled back his hand and sat up, but this big movement made the wound on his body even more painful.
He groaned and reached out to touch his abdomen. It felt wet and cool. It turned out that he had been given medicine.
etc…
After Xu Tingbai touched him, he realized something was wrong, because, he was not wearing any clothes?!
"You're awake." Lin Qingle took his temperature after a while, and then he fell asleep while watching over him.
Seeing him sitting up, she instinctively picked up the thermometer beside her and took his temperature. "37.3 degrees, that's great, it's gone down a lot! Get some more sleep, you'll be better tomorrow."
She put the thermometer down happily, and when she looked up at him again, she found that he didn't look well.
"What's wrong? Are you still not feeling well?"
"Where are my clothes?" Xu Tingbai's face was tense and his voice was tense.
"I, I took it off."
"… "
Seeing that he looked unhappy, she quickly explained, "Because you are injured, I have to take a look before I can give you medicine."
"You..." Xu Tingbai felt around in panic, but didn't touch any clothes.
He secretly clenched his fists, and his ears couldn't help but turn a light red.
But he deliberately put on a distant expression: "Stripping for a man in the middle of the night? It seems your teachers at school didn't teach you this. You're so clueless."
What he said was not ambiguous. Lin Qingle blushed immediately and clenched his hands helplessly, "But you are injured."
"This injury is not enough to make me unable to move."
Xu Tingbai felt that he was maliciously bullying her, but after he finished speaking, he heard her panic: "But I just applied the medicine, I didn't touch you!"
"… "
"Really, I swear!"
“… … ”
"Okay, I won't take it off randomly in the future." She sighed softly, still looking a little helpless, "Then you must be hungry, I'll go see if there's anything I can do at your house."
Xu Tingbai's expression was unpredictable. It was a long time after Lin Qingle left that he finally got up from the floor.
What's her train of thought
Could it be that, could it be that he thought he was blaming her for taking advantage of him? !
—
Xu Tingbai groped his way out of the room. As soon as he left the room, he smelled a fragrance coming from the kitchen.
When was the last time someone was in the kitchen
He has forgotten.
At that moment, the feeling of someone cooking for him at home made him a little confused, and even his reaction became a little slow.
"Why did you come out? You need to rest."
Lin Qingle's voice came, Xu Tingbai was silent for a long time, then turned to the direction of the voice, "If I remember correctly, today is Wednesday."
"Huh? Yes...what happened?"
"Then why are you still here?"
Lin Qingle realized that he was talking about her school: "Are you concerned about my class problems?"
Xu Tingbai turned his head away: "... Overthinking."
"Don't worry, I've asked for leave, and the teacher has agreed." Lin Qingle brought the noodles to the dining table, "Xu Tingbai, can you come over and sit down to eat now? I made noodles."
Her voice was a little excited, maybe because he was sick and asked this question, which made her feel something was wrong. But there was also a hint of hesitation, probably because she was afraid of being rejected by him.
Xu Tingbai also thought that he should refuse.
But for some reason, he smelled the scent, listened to her voice, and somehow sat down.
"Here!" Lin Qingle was very happy to see him sit down, and quickly put the chopsticks in his hand.
Xu Tingbai held it in silence.
He suddenly thought, let her do it if she wants... But just this once, next time, he will definitely not let her come over again.
Lin Qingle didn't know what he was thinking, she just looked at the bowl of noodles with some uneasiness. She had just looked in the kitchen, but it was empty, the only thing that could be used as a side dish was eggs.
She also tasted the noodles after they were cooked. They were watery and not very good.
"There's only eggs in the noodles. You try it. Hmm... It's not very tasty." Lin Qingle thought about it and felt a little embarrassed about his cooking skills today. "Otherwise, I'll go out and buy it for you. Uncle Yang's stall should be..."
"No need." Xu Tingbai lowered his eyes and swallowed the first bite.
"Not bad." The heat from the noodles moistened his cheeks. He suppressed the uncertainty in his heart and said calmly.